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Consultant neurologist Harri Jenkins talks to Helen Jones about maintaining a generalist approach to a specialism and learning from his patients
Neurology is such a broad specialty that it can appeal to a range of doctors, says Harri Jenkins, consultant neurologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
“The human brain is the most complex thing we know of and there are opportunities for all sorts of doctors with all sorts of interests in the field, both academically and clinically,” he says.
The specialty has changed enormously since his career began. “It used to be seen as all about making esoteric diagnoses and then not being able to do much for the patient, but that couldn’t be further from the truth now, given all the treatments that are available for things like multiple sclerosis and, in my own area, stroke,” he says.
Jenkins’ interest in medicine stemmed from an early childhood … ....
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The Clare Immigrant Support Centre has defended the use of an Inch hotel as emergency accommodation for international protection applicants. A blockade consisting of a number of tractors and a car remains in place outside Magowna House Hotel where 34 men arrived by bus on Monday night and have since been accommodated in three bungalows […] ....
The Clare Immigrant Support Network is describing the ongoing use of tented accommodation at Knockalisheen Direct Provision Centre as ‘inhumane & unsafe’. Figures made available in Dáil Eireann by Minister for Integration, Roderic O’Gorman show that 102 Asylum seekers are currently living at the Meelick facility. The use of tented shelter at the South-East Clare […] ....
Junior minister Niall Collins today justified his wife’s purchase of local authority land as he insisted that “no laws were broken” in relation to the sale. ....